Här är den ungefärliga texten:Young Abdel Madi Shabneh was only 18 years old,He was the youngest of nine children, never spent a night away from home.And his mother held his photograph up in the New York TimesYou see the killing has intensified along the road to peace

He was a tall, thin boy with a whispy moustache disguised as an orthodox JewOn a crowded bus in Jerusalem, some had survived World War TwoAnd the thunderous explosion blew out windows 200 yards awayWith more retribution and seventeen dead along the road to peace

Now at King George Ave and Jaffa Road passengers boarded bus 14aIn the aisle next to the driver Abdel Madi ShabnetAnd the last thing that he said on earth is "God is great and God is good"And he blew them all to kingdom come upon the road to peace

Now in response to this another kiss of death was visited uponYasser Taha, Israel says is an Hamas senior militantAnd Israel sent four choppers in, flames engulfed his white OpelAnd it killed his wife and his three year old child leaving only a blackened skeleton

They found his toddlers bottle and a pair of small shoes and they waved them in front of the camerasBut Israel says they did not know that his wife and child were in the carThere are roadblocks everywhere and only suffering on TVNeither side will ever give up their smallest right along the road to peace

Israel launched it's latest campaign against Hamas on TuesdayAnd two days later Hamas shot back and killed five Israeli soldiersSo thousands dead and wounded on both sides most of them middle eastern civiliansThey fill the children full of hate to fight an old man's war and die upon the road to peace

"Now this is our land we will fight with all our force" say the Palastinians and the JewsEach side will cut off the hand of anyone who tries to stop the resistanceIf the right eye offends thee then you must pluck it outAnd Mahmoud Abbas said Sharon had been lost out along the road to peace

Once Kissinger said "we have no friends, America only has interests"Now our president wants to be seen as a hero and he's hungry for re-electionBut Bush is reluctant to risk his future in the fear of his political failureSo he plays chess at his desk and poses for the press 10,000 miles from theroad to peace

In the video that they found at the home of Abdel Madi ShabnehHe held a Kalashnikov rifle and he spoke with a voice like a boyHe was an excellent student, he studied so hard, it was as if he had a futureHe told his mother that he had a test that day out along the road to peace

The fundamentalist killing on both sides is standing in the path of peaceBut tell me why are we arming the Israeli army with guns and tanks and bullets?

And if God is great and God is good why can't he change the hearts of men?Well maybe God himself is lost and needs helpMaybe God himself he needs all of our helpMaybe God himself is lost and needs helpHe's out upon the road to peace

Well maybe God himself is lost and needs helpMaybe God himself he needs all of our helpAnd he's lost upon the road to peaceAnd he's lost upon the road to peaceOut upon the road to peace.

EBRON, West Bank, June 12 - The puzzling thing was that he studied so muchrecently, his family said, as if he was planning on having a future.

The night before Abdel Madi Shabneh, just 18, blew himself up on the No.14/A bus in Jerusalem, killing 17 others in the process, he sat preparingfor his final high school English examination. He made no comment, hismother said, on the day's news that Israeli helicopters tried to assassinatea top leader in the Islamic militant group Hamas, Abdel Aziz Rantisi.

The next morning he merely told his mother and family he had to study morefor the test.

"He took some papers and said he needed to photocopy them for his exam," hismother, Rahmeh, 54, said today. "He said, `I'll be right back.' He took hisEnglish book with him. He never disappeared before. This was the firsttime."

The next verified sighting of Mr. Shabneh came that evening when he lay deadin Jerusalem's Jaffa Road, wearing the black pants and a prayer shawl of anOrthodox Jew, the Israeli police say.

In the intensifying struggle between Hamas and Israel, Mr. Shabneh's attackis widely viewed, though Israeli officials dispute it, as retribution forthe attack on Mr. Rantisi. But to his family, it is a mystery how this talland thin young man with a wispy moustache, who planned to study electronicsin college this year, ended up on that bus.

He is just the latest young man from this tense city south of Jerusalem tohave attacked on Israelis on behalf of Hamas. Since January, more than 10young men from Hebron have carried out such attacks. Many of them knew eachother from the soccer team at the Jihad Mosque in the Abu Katilaneighborhood. Five of them, including Mr. Shabneh, were suicide bombers.

A senior Israeli security official said tonight there was no immediateevidence that Mr. Shabneh was linked to the other bombers, but he said thepossibility was being considered. He said intelligence officials were notcertain why Hamas militants, always active in Hebron, have been especiallyso in recent months.

"They always had strong bases over there," the official said. "From time totime they have this ability to carry out these attacks that are verysuccessful."

Family members said today they did not know he was a member of Hamas, andsaid he did not play for the Jihad Mosque team. He did love to play soccer,they said. "Wherever he goes," his mother said, "he plays soccer."

In interviews here today, though, his family was vague about what teams heplayed for. One family member said he played on a school team. Another saidit was for a mosque team in his own neighborhood, Jabal al Rahmeh. Onecousin said that a member of one of the teams was a suicide bomber, but didnot provide any details.

Efforts to find his teammates here today were unsuccessful. Several peoplein his neighborhood said local soccer players had gone into hiding for fearof being arrested.

Unlike some families of Palestinian suicide bombers, who proudly proclaimtheir children "martyrs," Mr. Shabneh's family seemed more bewildered thananything else.

"I don't think this will achieve anything," said his cousin, ZakariaShabneh, referring to the suicide attack. "Unfortunately this will bring usbackward instead of forward."

He was the youngest of nine children; their father died five years ago.Neither he nor his two other brothers had ever been arrested, the familysaid, although family members said the brothers and several cousins werearrested after the bombing. Until Wednesday night, he had never even spent anight away from home, his mother said.

"I can't imagine how he managed to get to Jerusalem," his mother said. "If Iknew I would have prevented him from doing this. Do you think a mother canaccept to lose her son?"

While she said he had never expressed any particular interest in Hamas orany other militant group, she said he was affected by the hard life inHebron, a city of 130,000 Palestinians with Israeli soldiers protecting anenclave of 400 hard-line Jewish settlers.

"Everyone is affected by the general atmosphere," she said. "Everythingsurrounding us is very difficult. When they go to school, they are checked.When you go around the neighborhood, there are roadblocks. When you watchtelevision, you see suffering."

And she said he often commented when young Palestinian men carried outsuicide attacks against Israelis. "These people who became martyrs, when heheard about them, he said, `He's lucky.' "

Today, a video appeared of Mr. Shabneh, in T-shirt and jeans, but carrying aKalashnikov rifle over his shoulder and wearing the green Hamas headbandthat reads, "God is great." In a voice more a boy's than a man's, he gave ashort speech that followed Hamas in rejecting the peace plan and urging acontinuation of armed resistance to Israel.

"The martyrs have changed the course of this conflict, and declared thatthere is no alternative to resistance and no exchange for our full homeland,without divisions or separations," he said. "We won't give up our smallestright, whatever the price is, whatever the sacrifice. Our steadfastPalestinian people, you are great, your jihad is great. You are standinglike men, providing heroes in the battlefield."